The developers of the famous compatibility layer for native Microsoft Windows software on Unix-like systems have given us another welcome news, and that is Wine 3.12 is now officially released so that we can enjoy it and be able to install Windows software on our favorite GNU / Linux distribution. Of course, this new version is loaded with improvements and new features as usual in this type of release, as we will now comment. Be careful, this is the latest version in development, not the stable one!
Well, if you go to the Wine project official website, you can get both packages for installation, as information or the sources themselves. If you access this website, you can also download the necessary packages from both the development version and the stable version. In addition, in the download area you will find some interesting links to download packages for different distros or tarballs with the source code to compile it, as well as help, etc.
As for the the news which can be found in Wine 3.12, we can highlight the update from Unicode to 11.0.0, improvements in the configuration such as to configure the proxy in the Internet control panel, syntax corrected for the command cmd.exe of the shell, new features in Wingdings sources, and bug fixes found in previous versions. So with these bugs fixed and these and many other new features added, a step forward is taken to have the future stable version.
As for the corrections of these bugs, some users who have tried it have noticed substantial changes compared to the previous development version, such as that some error messages that were released no longer appear, especially they affected video games such as Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Heroes of Might, Magic III HD Edition, League of Legends, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Diablo III. As we can see, they have focused especially on video games.
I look at the work of those who make Wine, but in Ubuntu 18.04 nothing works ...